Quick and simple blog today cause of 100 day madness!
Purple Folders are coming home today, please empty and return!!
Please be sure that your info on the parent portal is up to date.
Make sure your student is coming with a charged computer, 2 or more snacks, and a water bottle.
Conferences are coming up. Click HERE for the sign up. They will be virtual again, if you need an interpreter please let me know.
Below is the Landmark Academy monthly schedule. Check it out! February is full of events.
Hello Families!
Well it was a short week and we had a delayed start one day! That means it was a crazy busy week and I am ready for a nap!
Upcoming Dates:
Jan 28th is 100th day of school! Please check backpacks for a flyer! We have a fun project we would like you to participate in!
Feb.11 is a Half Day (pickup at 11:30 am, NO LUNCH)
Feb. 14 Valentine's Day (More info to come!)
Feb. 17, 18, and 19: NO SCHOOL
Parent/Teacher conferences will be held in Feb. as well. More info to come. If you need an interpreter please email me so I can contact district to set that up!
Academics:
Moral Focus: Next week will wrap up our virtue of perseverance! We will be watching a short clip of Mulan and also listening to a fun song about perseverance.
Phonics: We will be continuing to explore multisyllabic words with both open and closed syllables. We will be reviewing this skill for a while to be sure we are efficient.
Writing: Students will be learning about common and proper nouns. A noun is a person, place, thing, or animal (boy, store, pencil, dog). A proper noun is the name of a person, place, thing, or animal (Mr. Collins, Target, etc). Proper nouns are capitalized in sentences, while common nouns are not.
Comprehension: Our class is starting our next unit of study. We are back to reading fiction stories. Next week students will focus on identifying characters and the character's feeling throughout the story. At home you can practice this by asking a lot of "how and why" questions. "Why did they do that? or How do they feel? How do you know? Did their feelings change?"
Math: We will be starting Unit 4! Students will explore number lines and see how they could be a benefit to adding and subtraction.
Social Studies: With me being out last week, we are gonna stretch Landforms another week and then hop over to Science.
Happy New Years!
Wow, it was a crazy week! We got a lot accomplished this week.
Please review school expectations with your student. As we have entered the second half of First Grade student are expected to know and follow the rules. I love our Moral Focus curriculum which focuses on wisdom, respect, self-control, etc. These are taught and expected of my students.
Students need to know to charge their computers at night. If your student makes it part of their routine coming home then they are less likely to forget.
Purple Folders: Please empty these every Friday and return them each week.
Upcoming Dates:
1/17: MLK/NO SCHOOL
2/11: HALF DAY (pick up at 11:30, no lunch provided)
2/17: NO SCHOOL
2/18: NO SCHOOL
2/21: NO SCHOOL
2/28: Homework due
Parent/ Teacher Conferences will be held at the beginning of February. I will send a sign up at a later date.
Academics:
Moral Focus: We are learning about Perseverance this month. Perseverance means to never give up. I emphasize this heavily. Students should persevere through things that are hard, easy, entertaining, or boring.
Phonics: We are reviewing what an open syllable is. An open syllable is a part of a word that ends with one long vowel. For example the word "robot" has two syllables. The first syllable say "ro-" and the second part is "bot." The first syllable is open because it ends with one long vowel. The second syllable is a closed syllable because it has one short vowel closed in by another letter.
Comprehension: We will be working on comparing and contrasting nonfiction texts. Students will be reading more animal books to prepare for this. To practice this skill have students identify similarities and differences at home. This could be while reading but also in other areas as well.
Writing: The students are having a blast with their opinion writings so I am actually going to extend out our opinion unit out a bit further. It is great to see students so excited about a subject.
Math: Next week is our middle of the year testing for math. Students with meet with me individually to review various math skills. There is no need to prepare for this. This will give me great information about how to best assist your student moving forward.
Social studies: Students are learning about various landforms around the world and how the can impact people's living. For instance, high mountains often come with snowfall.
